Jigsaw YMCA Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Partnerships with parents are effective. Parents are pleased with the level of communication they receive about their child's learning and progress, and appreciate the availability of staff to discuss their child's daily needs. They are confident that their children are safe in the nursery.

• Key persons work with parents when children start at the nursery to establish what they can and cannot do. From then on, suitable activities are planned to support children's development. Children make good progress.

• Relationships between children and their key persons are warm and caring. This helps to support children's emotional well-being. Children beh...ave well and feel safe.

• Staff are well supported. For instance, they have regular one-to-one meetings with the manager to discuss their practice and identify training needs. • Sometimes, staff do not challenge children's thinking or extend their learning to enable children to make even better progress.

• When recording their observations of children's learning, some staff describe the activity and do not assess what children are learning and can do. • Nursery staff have positive relationships with other settings where care is shared, and with the local schools children transfer to. Information about children's learning, progress and daily needs is shared and this helps to support consistency of care.